Places stenaavel Wants to Go

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.